Ross Smithe

This is fabulous! Really cool vibe with the uke, catchy melody, all around great tune! Your performance and production are outstanding also. The meat is definitely there, look forward to hearing it in the completed form! I want to go to the beach now, lol… 🏝️😎👍🎶🎶🎶

This is really outstanding, my friend! I’m really impressed by your songwriting sensibilities, as well as your performance, and production. All really top notch (really liked your vocs especially)! As far as additions, I think you want to be careful not to over produce it. It’s really good as it is, the production kind of fits the heart and message of the song. Anything you do add, keep it subtle. Soft laid-back drums would be good, possibly a more pronounced piano/electric piano track, background strings, and maybe mandolin tremolo in the chorus?? Just some thoughts. Anyway, again great work!

If you want to assign an instrument definition to a DTX drum kit/module, you will need to download the .ins file. I think you can download it here from Yamaha: https://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/ProductMedia/MIDI/InsDefs-2.exe

Backing track is great and fits the video well. Creative concept, love the retro ads!! 🎶🎶🎶

Very nice tune! Catchy hooky melody, good clean mix. Great job!! 👏🎶🎶

Fabulous work! Great tune and video. Definite high bar production value. Congrats on your album success! 😎👍🎶🎶

Groovy tune! Interesting progression and changes, clean production. Great job 😎👏🎶🎶

Outstanding synth textures! Great job 😎✌️

If you want to use the SI drums, set up a new instrument track with the SI kit itself as the instrument, not TTS-1 with the drums as a plug-in as you have it. Then on that track, open the GUI, select a kit in the top drop down on the left, then pick one of the genre/beats below that and drag some beat clips onto the track.

You don’t need to remove them, you can disable them and see if that helps your situation. Navigate on your computer to Device Manager, then open the “Sound, video, and game controller”drop down. You should see a list of the sound devices that are installed on your computer. You can right click on various ones and disable them. If you do that and it doesn’t help, removing them completely won’t make any difference either. Troubleshoot it this way, but I have a feeling you’re going to continue to have problems with this until you invest in a dedicated audio interface. Cakewalk is a professional level DAW, and works best with optimized and dedicated ASIO sound drivers. Also, an external interface running the sound will free up your system resources and help with latency. You can get a basic interface like a Presonus Audiobox for $100.

With the set up I was describing, he would only need one of these cords for the PSR keyboard. The other two newer keyboards (Motif, Tyros) would do their MIDI in/out through USB. He would then select whichever one he wants on each MIDI track.

Honestly this seems like an unnecessary over complication of the situation. Why don’t you just connect the two newer keyboards, the Motif and the Tyros, directly to your PC through USB MIDI (just have to download the USB drivers). Then use something like a Roland UM-ONE-MK2 (see pic) to connect the older PSR keyboard. I know for certain that the Motif has a virtual editor that you can also utilize if you go in through USB, not sure about the Tyros. If you just do standard midi cables, thru a hub or whatever, you won’t be able to utilize that tool.

Do you have multiple takes on your midi track? Have you checked your take lanes? If you’re in comp mode, it could be causing that. If it’s sending properly when you’re in piano roll, it most likely has something to do with your clips.

I recently completed this cover of Pink Floyd’s Nobody Home from The Wall. All done from scratch in Cakewalk by Bandlab, except for the background sounds at the beginning. Wanted to see how close I could get to the original, just for fun! Thanks for listening/commenting, feedback always welcome!